“…maybe the presence of a president who looks like Obama, who looks like millions of people of mixed race, will loosen up the rigid constrictions that rule movies, novels and visual art. ‘Black movies’ appeal only to black audiences, the current wisdom seems, and the ‘African American’ sections of bookstores are places where white readers seldom browse, according to a lot of recent essays and blogging about the segregation of literature… Maybe American movies and literature can have fewer black sidekicks who exist only to further white characters’ motives, plans and lives.”